Lastly, the third and final archetype selected has to be the trickster. No adventure novel can go on without a charachter challenging the hero’s mind and body. A perfect fit for this prime example is Golem who was one of the many discusting and evil trolls. Gollum had a battle of riddles with our hero Bilbo, which was meaningfully a “fight” to the death. An excerpt from this “battle” per se, comes from chapter five, “ ‘Praps ye sits here and chats with it a bitsy, my preciousss. It likes riddles, praps it does, does it?’ He was anxious to appear friendly, at any rate for the moment, until he found out more about the sword and the hobbit, whether he was quite alone really, whether he was good to eat, and whether Gollum was really hungry.” (Tolkien,
